Intel booking some capacity at TSMC is not surprising at all, Intel always had 20% or so of their products manufactured by 3rd party fabs.
I personally think it's for Mobileye, they already work with TSMC and their current lineup uses N7, not that much of a stretch to think they will use N5 too...
Rumor around the block is RKL-U is cancelled, don't know how reliable it is but the fact that TGL has vPro SKUs shows there might be some truth to this rumor.
Intel probably shipped around a few million ICL chips, not much by Intel standards but not that far from AMD's mobile volume and might be about equal to it. For comparison Intel might have shipped about 100M+ KBL-R and WHL chips.
Tiger Lake should be in much higher volume than Ice Lake, might...
In this listing right here:
https://www.pc21.fr/fiche/bx8070110900k-intel-bx8070110900k-intel-i9-10900k-comet-lake-s-lga1200-bx8070110900k-8623-nda13-05-i3154921.html
All CML-S models use new silicon
Kaby Lake was new silicon over Skylake as well, it had a slight iGPU upgrade and a decent memory controller update.
Lower CFL models use mixture of KBL dies and CFL dies,
It's 125W CPU at base clocks, which is how TDP is calculated.
BTW, I don't expect it to draw 250W at stock outside torture tests really, power consumption will probably be around 200W while boosting on all cores. (Just like the 9900K very rarely gets above 150W).
Before SKL the average all core boost was maybe 400 MHz over base clock, 6700K didn't even have an all core boost.
Here we have Intel doing 1100 MHz all core turbo boost over base clocks, of course the power consumption is gonna get crazy.
Intel's TDP has always been rated at base clocks, nothing shady there.
It's just the boost clocks have gotten much more aggressive so the power consumption while boosting went up considerably.
Intel's execution has been fine since Swan and Murthy cleaned house in the manufacturing group, that and the fact they actually seem to have learned from mistakes make me think they'll do an OK job of executing their manufacturing roadmap from now on. (At the very least no 3 year delays like...
How low can it get though? Get too low and you are undercutting the R3s.
I don't think 3600 will get much cheaper at all, at least until Zen 3 comes in Q4.
While waiting for benchmarks is a good idea, I think it's safe to say we have a good idea how a 6/12 SKL refresh will perform, plenty of data to guess it by.
The 10400F looks to be the sweet spot, especially for gaming. The 10700KF doesn't look too bad either.
The fact that we haven't heard of any issues yet have me thinking that at the very least it's going OK, no 10nm like problems at least.
And PVC is apparently sampling late this year, that should mean something....
1. ARM Macs have been coming since 2012, I will believe it when I see it launched.
2. If it's true, it more has to do with the fact that Apple always wanted maximum control over its own hardware rather than any issues Intel had with 10nm.
First ARM Mac will be almost certainly MBA (Or a new consumer focused product, and to put it bluntly, a Facebook machine, which is why the new iPad Pro makes me think they might not even do that).
If there was a MBP coming this fall you'd have heard the software developers working on software...
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